Amp July 18, 2026 Changelog

Amp is finally adding a monthly subscription option. This update matters to anyone who found Amp too expensive to use regularly, because it shifts the cost from a pricey pay-as-you-go model to a predictable flat rate. It also introduces a new way to run AI coding agents in the background on remote servers, so you can get more work done without babysitting your computer.

What's new

• Monthly Subscriptions (Beta): You can now pay a flat monthly fee to use Amp instead of paying for each individual task. If you already pay for a ChatGPT subscription, you can link it to Amp to make this even cheaper.
• Orbs (Remote Agents): Instead of running AI tasks on your own laptop, you can now send them to "orbs." Orbs are remote cloud computers that handle the heavy lifting. This lets multiple AI agents work on your projects at the same time, in parallel, without slowing down your computer or needing you to watch over them.
• Visual Proof of Work: When agents finish a task in an orb, they can now show you screenshots, videos, and local web portals to prove their work is correct. This means you don't have to spend as much time reading through their code to check for mistakes.

Improvements

• Lower Pricing: Amp used to be expensive because you had to pay for every bit of computing power you used. Now, it uses "good-enough" AI models for basic tasks that are downright cheap, while still using the powerful models for harder work.
• Less Babysitting: Older AI tools used to pause and ask you to approve every single edit they made. Amp already avoided this, but this update takes it further by letting agents work entirely on their own in remote orbs.

Fixes

No specific bug fixes were mentioned in this update.

Breaking changes

No breaking changes in this release.